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Comment by Slimda

The Headless Horseman is to be found inside the Graveyard of Scarlet Monastery during the Hallow's End period, which lasts two weeks. He's a three-phased boss, easily killed by average level 80s. Some might even solo him with ease.

Summon, how?Inside the Graveyard, an altar will appear, with an pumpkin upon it. Behind it, is a pile of dirt. By speaking to the pumpkin, you can get a candle, which delivered to the dirtpile behind, will summon the boss. He'll soar out, fly about a bit, and then land, charging the summoner. This will consume a Daily Quest. I've been able to summon him three times in one day, once. This requires you to consume your daily at first, then finish the questline from the newbie-villages, and then a second daily after that questline. (this seems to be fixed) Summoning him requires level 75.

The Fight, stage oneTank'n'spank. Nothing exciting happens. You tank, the others do damage, and the healer heals.As soon as he hits 1%, his head will pop off, and land at a random location. If this head doesn't get damaged down to about 67% before his body hits 100% again, you have to fight through phase one again.

The Fight, stage twoOk, head reaches ~67%, flies back to his body, and you're on. This time, he has a new ability. Conflagrate. It'll do 10% damage for 5 ticks on a random target. It also does a measly 20 +/- fire-damage to anybody in the vicinity of the target, once per second.Once he hits 1%, his head pops off again, so try to hit it down to 33%.

The Fight, stage threeThe head hits 33%, he becomes whole again, and you're on, for the third time. This time, he gets the ability to summon four helpful pumpkin-adds. If you're quick, they should only have time to spawn before the Headless Horseman is dead. If not, well, try to kill the horseman anyway.The pumpkins don't do very much damage, but can be very disruptive to the healer. The Headless Horseman will summon four adds every now-and-then, while conflagrating and hitting the tank as usual. At 1% his head flies off, and you've got a floating skull. Kill it quickly, and rejoice. Now go and loot the various drops he has.

Comment by defektunge

To clarify, you can only summon and fight this boss during the Hallow's End event, around Halloween. If you missed it, you'll just have to wait until next year before you can try again. There is no way to summon him any other time of year.

Comment by Arshes01

tip with conflagurate, try the C'Thun method, stay a good distance away from other party members. you also can only do the quest once a day, as many as i was able to, and must be level 65+ to do the quest.

Comment by Arshes01

then how did a level 65 go in there and try to do the quest solo (not intelligent since he didnt know what it was) but he still did it, and died.

An explanation on how this works; phase 1 starts and you fight him from 100-60%, then he heals too 100% and you now fight his head (head health not taken in calculation). Phase 2 starts and you fight him 100-30%, then his head once more and he again heals back to 100%. Phase 3 starts and you fight him 100-0% (assuming you do it quick enough and don't let him heal back up) and that is his "total health" -but it varies depending on the outcome of your fight. The result you see here is the minimum amount of damage you have to deal to get him down.

Comment by Klandathu

Would be awesome if his mount dropped. But, with all "dropped" mounts I'm sure the droprate would be awful.

Comment by Magaso

Anyone Know the Chat commands for his dialog?Maybe the laugh >.>

Comment by Nymphis

The bonus is with this boss - he can be raided. A group of 10 - as long as there are at least 5 70s in the group, makes for a relatively easy kill. My guild brought along a few lower levels (62-69) when we went so that everyone in the guild got the items that they would need for later.

lol I managed to get the Squashling on the last raid we did on him. Thank goodness everyone knew I was a pet addict - they all passed it to me :)

Or is he? No! He's outside lighting villages on fire!/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Bomb_01.wav")"Prepare yourselves, the bells have tolled! Shelter your weak, your young and your old! Each of you shall pay the final sum! CRY for mercy! THE RECKONING HAS COME!"

Yay the lowbies put the fire out!/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Out_01.wav")"My flames have died, left not a spark! I shall send you myself to the lifeless dark!"

But he lit another fire while the lowbies were occupied and he burned some stuff!/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Fire_01.wav")"Fire consumes, you've tried and failed! Let there be no doubt, justice prevailed!"

They also speculate that he'll also drop two versions of his Mount; ground and air varieties, like the Halloween brooms you can say...

Another thing worth noting about this is the following: this is a good sign that WoLK won't be out before November. You're seeing an updated loot table of the Horsemen with lvl 70 equipments... If WoLK were out, no one would be getting it... and thus this updated table would be inane.

Comment by goblinego

So he can't be killed enymore? (if not then goodbye flying broom).

Comment by Tekai

Looting the ground mount of this boss is considered an achievement, he so might drop it. ( Found this info looking on the WOTLK achievement list :) )

Comment by Serrehsieth

It looks like it will drop The Horseman's Reins.And that is awesome because this mount can be summoned in azeroth to ride on ground, and then in Outland to fly =) Also, it doesnt require epic riding skill hile being "a very fast mount".So... get your farming gear ready =)

Comment by rodmin

About the mount, it's not exactly that.

He drops a single mount whose speed will scale with your riding skill. If you only have 75, he'll run at 60%, but if you have the max riding skill, you can soar the skies on a flying steed.

Comment by Opdi

If you have max riding skill, will you still be able to use it as an epic ground mount when you're not in outland?

Comment by yawgamoth

Once every two hours you say? That sounds nice but I'd like to know for sure before I start spreading the word. Can anyone confirm?

Comment by Zenedar

Comment by Isilien

Within a graveyard dank and cold, there lives a troubled soul;He believes all else is dead, and he alone is whole.When he rides upon his fiery steed, his laughter ringing clear;The townsfolk stay behind locked doors, for Hallow's End draws near.

T'is seven days and seven nights till the Horseman roams the land;Are you prepared to face the one who holds his head in hand?Well, we shall know in just a week, the ones who'll take a stand;When comes the time for trick or treat, the time for Hallow's End.

--Isilien, Scarlet Crusade (US)

Comment by bluntaxed

He now only drops 1 type of broom, it changes to suit your training/location

Comment by Elfy

Dont sure that this phase start on some percents.. was with good group here and this phase start on 13%...

as long as there are at least 5 70s in the group

Was on alt, and we easy make it in 4 ppl... Pala tank (half holy gear other rare gear from lvl 63-70 normal instances) and 3 DPS. without healer... Very low DMG on tank (2-3k on phase 1)

so... good luck =)

Comment by blkmasta

You sir, are complete win.

Comment by Isolde

I think this guy is making this up.

Comment by geordiesi

Love the lines, but am I missing something or should "treat or treat" be "trick or treat"

Comment by geordiesi

no he ain't

Comment by Nikkex

Hehe :D very easy boss and good rings..

Comment by Reanna

Had a horrible loot streak on him today, not sure if something is bugged. Randomness can't be predicted, but of the 10 times I killed him with my group today he dropped the Witch's Band 8 times. The other two rings dropped once each, and nothing else.

Comment by CursedSeishi

Yeah, the sword is a real drop, got it first kill on him. I'll post a picture or two later on, its like 5:30 am in the morningoh, and here's something interesting. He is two-mannable.Me (Ret paladin) and a feral druid just downed him, I didnt have to blow any major cooldowns, and I'm not well geared (my only purple is crystal song axe). So just goes to show ya how much weaker he has become, or how much stronger we are after the patch.

Comment by Rigon

I got the mount , it fits pretty well on the belfs

Comment by Isilien

Thank you for pointing out the small typo. I have now corrected it. ^_^

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Comment by Sannu

He is rumoured to drop permanent mounts on 3.0.2, which I doubt. Can anyone confirm it?

Comment by Damiakalani

Confirmed he does indeed drop his mount. Saw someone on the server with it tonight (checked the mount buff) It looks very similar to the huntsmans.found this on wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=48025

Comment by Nefarium

Gotten two of the Horseman's Blade so far this morning, screenshotted it for whatever.Horseman's Blade

Comment by TMWNN

Yes, the mount will serve as an epic ground mount at the max in Azeroth and as an epic flyer at the highest in Outland or Northrend (with xpack)

Correct. I'd been told the mount would simply adjust to the riding-skill level (so someone who hadn't trained to 225 riding would find it to be simply a ground mount, for example). The mount, however, adjusts automatically based on location! Now I can free up a slot on my actionbar, and no more error messages from trying to summon a flying mount in Azeroth.

The mount in air mode doesn't have wings, or breathe fire, as I'd vaguely imagined; as a groupmate remarked, "It just looks like a flying horse." But hey, it's a horse! That flies! After returning to Shattrath I pulled out the Horseman's Helm I'd obtained a year ago and flew around the city, laughing evilly and threatening imminent doom on its residents.

Also note that, unlike last year and like Coren Direbrew, the boss can be repeatedly summoned without having to exit and reset the instance.

Comment by Jummy

the sinister squashlings droprate is higher this year i think. killed him 10 times and he dropped it twice and the head once (the epeen head that is)

Comment by jinkuzo

Mount is also permanent and can be summoned in both outlands and azeroth. It will be able to fly at 280% speed in outlands and runs at 100% speed in azeroth (or runs at 100% speed in outlands too if you land)

Comment by Juggynaut

Confirmed. I have the mount and it is usable anywhere. Flies in Outland, runs in Azeroth. I heart this mount.

Comment by Tony1004

Is it just me or is the headless horseman is ALWAYS speaking in rhyme?

edit:bad grammar

Comment by Speeddeath

I can confirm this is legit, it dropped for us not too long ago got screenie here

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Comment by Mangleholic

ROLF I LOVE THE SECOND LAUGH

Comment by Mangleholic

LOL I LOVE THE SECOND LAUGH

Comment by blademasterjt

Confirmed, the new human racial Every Man For Himself removes the Conflagrate.

Comment by Nathiestx

Just did him 5 times in a row(no need to leave to re summon him) with one pally(me) two druids, 1 mage, 1 rogue all level 70's and all too easy. Sword dropped on first and last kill. The mage took one and the other went to one of the druids. So the sword dropped twice along with the helm which dropped on the second kill (I took the helm) all drops with in 20 minutes. 3.0 patch made killing him a breeze.

Comment by Ciam86

I ran him 9 times today..... the helm (epic) dropped only once.. and the broom (ground) drops pretty commonly... the rings drop diferently... every kill a different ring drops most of the time..

Comment by BorgenAlectus

i think headless horsman is a pretty cool guy. eh talks in rymes and doesn't afraid of anything

Comment by Saelyra

Since many people are likely to be doing a lot of pick up groups on this guy to get the maxiumum amount of summons-

Be sure that your loot is not on ffa before downing the Horseman.

I was in a group today in which the Squashling dropped on the first kill and was promptly ninjaed.

Comment by fenoglio

by mistake, on a 66 mage i greeded CBT ring, then needed mage ring, cuz i did need it, then greeded priest ring, got all 3 ^^

Comment by KnifeyKnifey71

I'd love to fight him just for the heck of it - or for the broom mount that can be used by 60s - but I doubt anyone would let a 64 Hunter join, and I'm not in a guild so I can't try to get in on a HH fight that way.

(Only recently started playing again after a 2 year break and haven't looked for a new guild yet)

Definitely getting my Pally to 70 by next year, because that helmet he drops looks awesome!

Comment by depthad

The fight is a pure joke, very easily rogue tankable. Most likely soloable for a paladin or druid. Each person should be able to summon twice

Comment by Isilien

Edit: This was originally written in response to a posting (now purged) by someone asking whether others also heard the Horseman speaking to them in rhyme.

This is a serious maladyWe fully sympathise;We wonder under what conditionsThis problem does arise?

You really ought to get this checkedIt might well be a curse;For to the rest of us he speaksIn alliterative verse.

But I must ask, in curiosityAs I am wont to do;Have you been, my good sirIn old Coren's direbrew?

--Isilien, Scarlet Crusade (US)

Comment by Xasen

So, interesting fact...apparently he can be solo'd by protection paladins. It takes a hell of a long time, however it's doable. The only real trouble that both I had was that neither of us had the dps to take down the head that quick. If you're going in, make sure you make a macro to target the head before you start. Just make sure you have Blessing of Sanctuary on and watch your health and mana and switch judgements and seals accordingly. I used Seal of Light and Seal of Corruption, while switching between Judgement of Light and Wisdom. Had to heal a couple times, but other than that, it's just doing the damage and keeping your mana up. Good luck farming!

Edit: I can speel

Comment by Brunomedia

they should really change the model of his sword cuz it sucks

Comment by Teemu

1. Summon It, If ur group has hunters make them put traps on the rigth side of the Pumpkin Head. 2.keep tank with full health and get horseman to 1-5% health.3. Attack head when horseman is IMMUNE to EVERYTHING. do this 3 times and he should die...

Comment by Sunderhorse

Looks like he can only be done 5 times for every group.

Comment by magilync

It seems like this bit of info hasn't been added here yet but... If you complete the quest in Goldshire, to put out the fires, you get a additional summon. Nice if everyone in your party does it, 10 summons for 5 people. :D

Comment by Spicebringer

Two manned by me and a prot warrior. Myself beign enhancement shaman.I simply put my two caster rings on, earth living dualwield and healed the warrior who actually is pretty buffed on damage ;P

Peppercan-Ravencrest

Comment by Oberik

Two-manned him 4 times with a Combat Rogue and a Elemental Shaman, Rogue tanking, Shaman healing whenever the rogue went under 4.5k. No deaths except the Shaman on the first kill, though both were in mixed s4/t5/t6.

Easy fight, blow your cooldowns during phase 2 to minimize Conflagrate damage. Be careful of his whirlwind when he detaches his head.

He hits leather for about 1300-1600 and cleaves for 3k, so bring a health potion or two, or get a warlock buddy to make a healthstone for you.

Comment by gonzjoe

extremely easy boss.

did it with a 70 warrior tank, 70 mage, 66 druid dps, and me (68 spreist) on heals.

Comment by anubiteofosiris

pumpkins from sword have a semi ranged attack that does around 150 damage, the pumpkins have 950 hp and around 3k mana, sword summons 3 of them and they last for about a minute i think? Pretty nifty thing, I think for new prot pallies will enjoy its DPS for the new talent, but its overall a great wep =)

Comment by steve13186

Unfortunately I do not have a screenshot of the following claim but I have seen a Tauren on The Horseman's Mount, his actual undead mount (off-colour of Midnight in Kara).

Can anyone else back this up?

Comment by Aeolyn

Summoning him requires level 70.

This is -not- true. I just brought a level 69 and they were able to summon him. Can anyone figure out the minimum level required to pop the Horseman? Would be extremely handy to know for running friends through the fight.

Comment by Billmaan

Soloed him as a feral druid in badge gear, with agi food and a major agi pot. The fight is trivial before the adds show up; keep demo roar up, pop barkskin and frenzied regen when they're up, and you'll be fine. You can shift out and heal when the head deattaches, just be sure to stay away from the body. The adds are the real problem. Once they start spawning, the incoming damage is just too great, and you'll need to burn the HH down. I had to pop survival instincts at the end and just barely got him down. I would recommend healing to full the second time the head pops off (I didn't, because I was #$%^y, which almost got me killed).

I imagine this would be pretty easy to solo with a well-geared prot paladin. The adds shouldn't be able to scratch you.

edit: I should note that I didn't have anyone in group for the protector of the pack buff. That would have helped tremendously.

Comment by Dorkfish

I don't know if this has been stated yet, but you cannot 10-man the headless Horseman like you could last year. You get an error that the instance is full when the 6th raid member attempts to enter then instance.

Comment by Dorkfish

You cannot summon the Headless Horseman at level 64. We think the minimum is level 65.

Comment by arlen

From what I've read, the quest requires level 65. So bascially if you can't find a 5th or something, just invite someone who is level 65+ and they can summon. Headless horseman is very easy, can be 2 manned with no problems as long as you have a good tank and healer.

Comment by Nebu7777

He now drops a headless horseman mount that can also fly.

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Comment by KnifeyKnifey71

Fought him multiple times yesterday, and the fights were a lot easier than I thought it would be. Team was a Feral Druid, a Shaman, a Paladin (not sure if he was Ret - was too busy to pay attention), and two Hunters (one of which was me, and I was the only non-70 (lvl 65)). Only one faceplant the entire time (the other Hunter, during the final fight.

The Conflagration attack he uses during stage 2 can be halted (cancelled) by any ability that stops movement impairments (yes, it stops the damage, not just the confusion); I was using this to stop it: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=18856 , but apparently Feign Death and some racial abilities will end it as well, from what I've heard.

Drops weren't that good, as he kept dropping rings (mostly the Witches' Band) until the last fight when he dropped the Hallowed Helm and the Horseman's Helm. The Paladin in the group was the only plate wearer, so he got it by default.

Comment by altaaamente

Bahhh this guy is so easy it gets boring... no need for tank what so ever... 4 warriors and a healer could do this no problem.

i got the Horsmans blade on the very first day, and yesterday got the sinister pet, and for my dimise saw the horsman reigns drop to a fellow warrior... and yes he flys! heheheh

CheersBorromir of frostwisper EU

Comment by flasher2017

well then you must be bad cause i tanked it and healed it at the same time on my holy pally...........

Comment by brune12345

He also drops a sword but I do not know how to add it to the loot table. So here is the link.

Comment by Wolf4355

The Horseman also drops a sword that isn't listed here unfortunatly, but it's a real sweet sword that summons pumpkin soldiers!

Comment by fylonix

My 2c worth,

We have been running this as a group of 70s that levelled up together. Prot Pally Tank (Me) Ret pally (DPS and occasional heals) Fury/Arms Warrior (DPS) Feral Drood (DPS heals when needed) and a Survival Hunter (DPS). The fight its self is fairly simple, as it has been said before, just back him up into the opening of the crypt so his adds spawn almost on top of the tank and target his head with the TAB key when it pops off. Hunters use misdirect on the tank to help with aggro generaion and enjoy the fight.

Generally, when we have all had our shot at summoning him for the day we will start swapping people out and bringing the lvl65 and aboves in so they can have a go at him. I think its nice that they will have some epics in the bank ready for level 70. Saying that, Im not sure how long they will last after WOTLK comes out lol. Personally, the 70s in the group are only farming him for the sweet mount now, buts its a fun, if not particulaly challanging fight

Comment by Raithesage

I was able to get a group, and everyone kept swapping alts, So I got a total of 16 runs, and 5 before that from another group. (some people had 2 summons)

The vanity pet dropped once, the Cloth Pumpkin head, dropped twice. A bunch of Broom Mounts and RINGS GALORE. But everyone passed on the rings cause everyone all ready had one of each ring. The helm has yet to be seen.

I suggest if you're going for the helm, you go with no other plate wearers, or know that the other plate-wearer will PASS on it. I.E. someone you trust or someone who has it all ready.

If you're a disenchanter happy halloween!

Comment by arenouis

my lvl 70 hunter friend said he is a bitch to kill

Comment by bloodpaly

This guy hits like a girl =P on my holy paly with ~8k health and no tanking stats, I can tank and heal for this with 4 dps, if a real tank is in the group, then i end up doing like 2 flash of lights a kill, but its kinda fun to tank and heal for him.

Comment by Candah

Ret Pallies are OP atm. <3

Comment by Huntered

Long fight, 15 minutes, but soloable as a prot pally in badge gear.

Pretty easy fight. He hits like a girl. Use judgement of light and seal of light if you need it. The only time you really need to pick up your dps is when his head is out.

Don't worry about the squashlings. They were designed to mess with the clothies so they hit for nothing on plate and are a good source of mana with blessing of sanctuary up.

As for soloing with a resto druid. Pretty easy fight until the squashlings. Imp treeform tanking. Since the druid nerf, its going to be pretty hard to keep yourself up through the squashlings using only hots and casting with 5+ mobs hitting you = death. Took me about 30 minutes to get to that point. So not worth it in my opinion.

As for the question why solo.... Why not solo. You have the same chance on the good stuff basically and its fun. I bet if there was an acheivement for it everyone would be all over it.

Comment by chknnuggts

If you're a disenchanter happy halloween!

The rings cannot be DE'd....

Comment by zeakster777

When you describe the Headless Horseman's Mount you said that with a 300 riding skill you aquire a 380% speed,I think you meant to say 280% speed,or am I missing something?

Comment by Cecilq

We summoned him 6 times in a row while I was there (swapped someone out once). In those 6 kills, he dropped the following:

After these 6 kills, I left so another guild member could take my place...they summoned him a few more times, and he dropped two Sinister Squashlings (but since I wasn't there & don't know for sure how many times they killed him, I didn't count them in the above stats).

Agreed that it's not too tough a fight...the Coren Direbrew encounter was significantly more challenging. Just keep an eye out for his body during the "head-pop-off" stage...it wanders around slowly & aimlessly, and occasionally does a warrior-style AoE Whirlwind. Nothing scary or hard-hitting, but easy enough to avoid.

On the other hand, do whatever you can (use a cooldown, pop a trinket, whatever) to shake off Conflagration if you get hit with it...it ticks away a good chunk of health over time, and you'll most definitely need a big heal or a full course of bandaging before you can get back in the game.

Comment by Mumpley

The Headless Horseman is an extremely easy boss. I got a group together that consisted of a 70 Druid Tank,67 Rogue,70 Rogue (Me),a 68 Shaman Healer specced Enhancement and a level 55 Warrior.

I was amazingly surprised we easily killed The Horseman twice with this group. Just comes to show if a person has a summon,take them. Don't worry if their in blues or greens because if you can slice pie you can take on HH with a level 36.

Comment by Aznex

Yes: Shoop Da Whoop!No: Headless Horseman

Comment by Carcharoth

Heya, what's the audio file for his line "Here's my body, fit and pure, now your blackened souls I'll cure!"

Thanks in advance. =]

Comment by hittomogasin

Soloable to well geared protadin, just keep both judgement of wisdom and seal of wisdom on for mana regen and save all major CDs till head comes out. Took me 17 mins so its not that time consuming either.

Comment by weezel

has anyone tried to solo him yet? I have on my protection paladin, very easy. trying at the moment to establish a decent kite path on my hunter, not very easy if you wipe and have to get another summon, though.

Comment by pacbin

I think that gets players reported do they? cause i tried something else once and my acount got susspended.

Comment by Crimor

You're retarded, it's a freaking command they put in.

Comment by rednass

I am trying to find the sound the horseman say's "Fire still burns, part i don't remember, I soon retire!"

Anyone knows the script's of that sound?

Comment by sune0z

its a very nice boss to kill whan is halloween

Comment by oedura

"The rings cannot be DE'd..."

The rings can't be vendored, either, which sucks. Now I know why everybody passes on them.

They're not that great, either, unless you just hit 70 and haven't found anything better in the instances or the AH. My main is wearing level 70 green rings that make them look like crap.

Unless you like souvenirs...

Comment by Jester8652

Me and a group of four others ran him tonight. All three rings dropped. I won the roll for each one.XDWe all greeded of course, I was just lucky enough to get all three.His mount dropped too. The tank won the roll. Lucky man...

Comment by Qariz

Actually you can dispell Conflagrate by just right clicking on it since it's where the buff's are.. Kinda nice not to be damaged by it.. ;D

Comment by Edawan

I've just done it and it was actually easier than I expected.

I was using Seal of Light on the Horseman, judging Light, dpsing mainly with Hammer of the Righteous.On the head, Seal with Righteousness, pop your wings, and judge / hammer / shield throw all you can. Consecration is useless as the head moves a lot.As I took my time on the horseman, wings were up for each head phase.

For my regen, I had to pull some zombies to regen with Sanctuary and Seal of Light. Once he summons his squashlings it gets a lot easier.

Comment by mikehayes69

im an 80 prot warrior. i was wondering for 2009 am i able to solo him. and how many times a day can you summon him? is it like just reset/repeat or is it capped..

Comment by Frempt92

I did him with a really weird group composition.

We had:

70 Shaman (tanking and healing himself)70 Hunter70 Warrior (DPS)67 Hunter56 Druid (xP that was me, healing even though I was Feral)

We tried it again without the Shaman, and it was an epic fail.

Can't wait for next hallow's end, now that I am actully the right level ^^

Comment by Stryper7

Juggy, you just HAVE to reply and rub it in that you have the mount. It isn't enough to hover around in Project Lore as and Zand make the questing guides which countless viewers see.

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Comment by Yakeshi

Cannot copy and paste into chatbox. All input is changed to game input.

Comment by Essenceofjlm

Will there be a level increase and new loot for 80's on the next Hallow's end?

Comment by Wisdomsword

During Hallow's End, the Headless Horseman is a summoned elite boss spawned in the Pumpkin Shrine in the middle of the Forlorn Cloister in The Graveyard, an instanced wing of the Scarlet Monastery. Additionally, he attacks Horde and Alliance villages at various times throughout the event.The Horseman was once a knight of the Silver Hand, but is now cursed. He is of the belief that he is alive, while those who face him are dead. When defeated, he is revealed as Thomas Thomson ( aka Sir Thomas).To spawn him, first click on the Pumpkin Shrine to receive Call the Headless Horseman. Click the Loosely Turned Soil behind the shrine to hand in the quest. Each character can summon the horseman once per day.He can also be summoned once only by players with the quest starting at the Shade of the Headless horseman. This quest can only be obtained from the Costumed Orphan Matron when the Shade has been defeated in one of the villages and the Large Jack-o'-Lantern is on the ground.Whilst the horseman can be summoned, killed, and looted as usual in a raid, the instance limit is 5 people.

Comment by helpinghelper

Does any1 know what he'll dropp 2009?

Comment by cioudhead

Where can u find the guy?

Comment by jakob123

SM (Scarlet Monastery) Graveyarad

Comment by Rahilama

IS IT POSSABLE FOR A LEVEL 80 ENHANCEMENT SHAMAN TO SOLO HIM?

how much health does he have?

Comment by rokolos

so will this guy drop the same lvl 70 gear now that Wotlk is out?

Comment by Revealman

I bealive he will have hp and dmg increased and the loot will also be different, up to date with WotLK. I really don't think that it would be fun 5 manning a boss that lvl70 prot paladin could solo.

Comment by refer1994

i have read all the comments but no one asked what lvl he is. I dont know. Will someone please tell me?

why did i get purged? last time hallow's end was on i was lvl 26 so how the hell should i know

Comment by crazy872

does any know if he will be tuned for 80s next hollows end? because that would suck if he wasn't and only dropped 70 gear still.

Comment by blinketyblink

i wonder if this year they will change his stats because of wotlk

i hope not cuz the you could kill him faster and mabey have a better chance of the mount dropping lol

Comment by Idzuna

i have read all the comments but no one asked what lvl he is. I dont know. Will someone please tell me?

He's a boss so his level will be '?' or in regard to BC boss levels probably level 73

Comment by chicers

is it easy for a level 80 warrior to solo him?

Comment by Jigain

Well, as I'm sure we've all noted now that the Midsummer Fire Festival is just over... the Frost Lord was still level 70-ish. So I'd say there's a reasonable chance the Horseman is kept as he is.

Comment by 11TPFFenway11

I think it is wierd how a lvl. ? elite (probably lvl. 70 cause of somw drops!) is in a lvl. 35 - 40 instance on only every Halloween! How 'bout ya'll?

Comment by 11TPFFenway11

How do you summon him like what gets him there anyway?

Comment by 11TPFFenway11

Yes it would be like bam you r dead because my neighbor Carlut the 80 human Priest on Vek'nilash was just like bam and 20 penny-lis loser's were dead and she basically just could do all it by her self and a warrior most definitly because of more strength and power so! check me out on the realm veknilash i am a lvl. 25 gnome warlock named tyleractilf so maybe we could chat or try and be friends so we can do instances and maybe join my guild so check it out dude!

Comment by Revealman

You are probably right. However, unlike Ahune, HH will be farmed daily because of his mount.

Comment by spekkiothebrave

Well Direbrew is getting upped to 80, according to a blue post. hopefully the headless horseman will be as well

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Comment by Troxase

Ok i am just wondering what level he is cus my cousen soloed him a few times and got the mount and i dont want to go through the stress of a group can some one please just tell me that?

Comment by minibeez1

I love the name of the acheivment. Bring me the head of ... oh wait

Comment by natedog3332

What level is the headless horseman... shouldnt it say that here?

Comment by Sallara

The 2009 Headless Horseman event will now have level 80 loot, unlike it's counter-part, Ahune. Blizzard got around to changing the loot and having him revamped, but didn't bother with Ahune, but Ahune shall be level 80 next year.

And the sword will be a clone of Hatestrike (plus the pumpkin soldier summoning ability).

I don't have any special knowledge of this, just an educated guess based on the patterns from the last two years and my observations of how Blizzard thinks. They say prophecy is the realm of the insane or stupid, but I'll put my marker down.

Comment by P00KIES

So is this a daily? Meaning, can you only fight him once? Or can you farm this guy to get the nice Mount he drops?

Comment by tmptfate

As of 10/6/2009 it is rurmored that the Hallows End event will be changing locations .A very brief bug in game showed Hallows End decorations traditionally at SM in Scholomance. It appears that the move will be to Scholomance in Western Plaguelands. Will confirm or delete when possible in the next 2 weeks.

Comment by tmptfate

On the first day of the event in 2008, you got a normal summoning quest for the Headless Horseman. Once everyone did that, you were then given the option of the daily summon. So technically, everyone could summon him 2 times on one day, but only for the first time you do the Headless Horseman quest. From then on, it is like a normal holiday boss.

Addition: The Headless Horseman has been confirmed by Blizz as being updated to lvl 80 for the 2009 event. (Source)

Edit: For 2009, it appears the double summon did not get to happen. It seems that if you ever did the normal quest to summon the boss, thats it. There was a hope it would reset every year but that appears to NOT be the case. :(

Update: Just for clafification, the double summon is still in game BUT.. you can only do it one time on a character. So if you did it last year, you cant do it this year.

Comment by Eilonthay

Thank you for the reply. I wish it hadn't been down-rated because it's a perfectly reasonable question. I hope what happened last year remains the case this year and beyond...it would be nice to be able to do it twice in one day, even if it's only a one-time occurrence.

I'm hoping they do the loot cloning, as lvl 70 items aren't much use to a lvl 80....except to parade around in and look cool. ;)

EDIT: This is a reply to tmptfate's reply to my question that was downrated into oblivion, which basically asked how it was you could summon the Headless Horseman more than once a day. I've never done it, so I didn't understand.

EDIT: Yep, still in the game! The group I was in on the first day ended up doing it 10 times--no mount, but I got a ring out of it (that I wish wasn't unique) and brooms and pets dropped like crazy. We were all very happy. I ended up with so many Tricky Treats that I gave them all away to lower level people after I was done with my achievement...didn't see the sense in letting them go to waste. =)

Comment by Magnion

Anyone know if the Headless Horseman and his hear drops are going to be level 80 this year? I hope so, its so hard to find good, epic rings.

Comment by Nobbeh

there is only speculations at the moment(read up a couple reply's up)Will post(if someone else havent) what/if he drops new items this year as soon as possible

Comment by tmptfate

Confirmed, the Headless Horseman returns this year as a level 80 boss! There will be updated loot obviously and (Speculation) I would also expect a Boe drop from him just like Direbrew had at this years Brewfest Event. I will edit my post with his boe item if this turns out to be true.

Comment by PilsnerDk

2009's HH is lvl 80, has 126k hp and is almost excactly the same as last year. He has 3 phases, each ending with his head popping out, which must be killed.

He is extremely easy for a group of lvl 80s.

Comment by Zepnic

Just like the Brewfest boss was easier at level 80, compared to his 70 version, so is the Headless Horseman a pale shadow of the terror he struck in people at level 70.

Finished him of with a regular group comp, 3 dps, 1 healer and 1 tank. It was not challenging at all.

You can probably take him without needing a healer.

You might even be able to skip tanks to, and go full out dps. But only if you know you can handle it.

Comment by ceemeeir

I have a strong feeling, that just like the brew fest mounts, they upped the drop rate of this mount also. During the first 2 hours I saw 7 mount drop report on general (Only horde side). Even if 1-2 was fake, still feels better, than 0.3%. One also reported 2 drop out of ~20 kills. But of course it can be just a matter of luck, like everything else.My group plans to do HH untill all four of us have the mount, so far our statistic for 3 hours of straight HH summoning:33 kill0 The Horseman's Reins4 Sinister Squashling (12%)8 Magic Broom (24%)3 Hallowed helm (9%)2 The Horseman's Blade (lvl 80 version) (6%)1 The Horseman's Helm (lvl 80 version) (3%)

NOTE: This is small amount of sample, drop rate can be very different from this. Will try to update this post with later drop rates.

Update: -2 to +3 in 1 day after I got the mount?:O I must say that wowhead is polluted by jealous ppl. GG

Comment by Hairband

I'm quite curious... for 2009, what level need I be in order to summon the Headless Horseman in a group? I'm assuming it's 75+, like Coren Direbrew was mere weeks ago.

Comment by Tensix

Like with Direbrew, you need to be 75 now to summon him too. Damn shame at that, since I had another character just shy of 75 who couldn't give my group an extra go at it.

Comment by Prices1223

This year has been exceedingly easy, and I got to do it twice both the starting quest and the daily. Drop rates must be higher this year also because of the reign dropping twice in the 10 times I fought him tonight.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha."- the Headless Horseman

Comment by Prices1223

Correction...i did it 15 times, don't know if that helps the ratios at all, but the Horseman's Reigns 2/15 times I'd have to say are pretty good odds.

Comment by Iklama

Soled this guy as prot pally in ilvl 226-245 gear. He was less of a challenge than Coren. Then I two-manned it, and I actually took more damage then than when I soloed it, due to conflagration contagion. There is no conflagration if you solo it.

Comment by Isilien

Confirmed that the level to summon him is level 75. You can grab the quest in Brill/Goldshire to summon him at level 65 (this quest is only available if you have never summoned him before on previous years), but after turning it in at the pumpkin in SM Graveyard, you CANNOT get the daily quest to summon him.

Comment by Rushlol

lol i wiped on it and cant summ again :Đ

Comment by emutolas

For lvl 80 Haloween that started 2009-10-18 The drop chance for pet and mount has increased, why?

Comment by TheDrWhat

headless horseman has 126,000 health, while his head has 63,000 health.

Comment by TheDrWhat

Get that head and he'll be Dead!

Comment by NarayanFR

Solo'ed as a Prot Paladin. Fairly easy. I'm pretty sure this will get downrated, but just wanted to say everything but hard to kill. Almost sure every other tank class can kick his unheaded ass the same way.

Comment by altho

Most people with atleast a bit of sanity knows that the people posting about increased droprate are lying here, it's all just a coincidence that they were lucky and had more then one drop per x summons.

I have now killed the horseman more then 70 times so far this year, and I have not seen either The Horseman's reins or the plate helm.

Edit: This is concerning "The Horseman's Reins"

Comment by awerss

Is it possible to take Headless Horseman down duo (Paladin 78 and Holy Priest 78) ?

Comment by AusSpyder

He is extremely easy. Duel boxxed with my druid in blues/heroic epics (max ilvl 200) and priest, bubble and renew kept me at full life easily. So if you have come here wondering if you have the gear to fight this guy, the answer is yes

Comment by rayden54

How do you get the prequest ?

Comment by Edymnion

Get the pre-quest by hanging out in Brill or Razor Hill. Every so often, the Headless Horseman's shade will swing through and set the buildings on fire. If everybody works together to put the fires out, the shade will come down to fight. Kill it, "talk" to his pumpkin head on the ground, and you'll get the quest to go kill the real Horseman in SM.

Tips on putting out the fire, if you put the area of effect under another player, you will throw the bucket to them, and they will catch it. This way, you can make a bucket brigade to the fires, and can douse them very rapidly. One guy at the well, throws to the next guy, etc to the end of the line where you throw it on the fire.

Fast, easy, and nobody ever remembers that you can do it.

Comment by Hobgoblin

I tried to do him at lvl 75 with a full group, 72 lowest with one lvl 80 hunter in group.

Failed after 4 tries. He was way too difficult. He is level 80 elite and you have to kill him 3 times.

I don't understand what these guys are talking about. Some of them said he's soloable? That is obviously a lie.

Comment by Shnorque

Just a note that it is still possible to summon him twice in a row, I never did HH last year and as such was able to pick up the lvl 70 quest: The Headless Horseman. After summoning HH for this I was able to pick up the daily and do it again.

Comment by Zenodice

How do you put this into a macro?

I tried making a macro that just does /script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav") but it doesnt seem to work, though if I paste that into chat it works fine :/

Also, where do we get these sound files if they are stored locally, cause I love that sound.

Comment by akridas

You can summon him x2 -twice- on the same day, I have confirmed that -if you do the short quest line-, only if you haven't done it in the past before -only if it is your 1st time there-, then you will get a yellow ! and after you can redo the quest clicking the blue !

was able to solo him with my 38k hp protection paladin -ask outside players to buff you, fortitude,mark of the wild,etc- and use seal of wisdom, blessing of sanctuary on yourself

my DK tank frost specc with blood presence on failed to solo him

Comment by JJR512

The double-summon is, in fact, in the game. I did it today, as did another member of my party.

Comment by Duckula

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is _maybe_ possible for a BM hunter. I haven't done it yet, but I got through the first phase solo with little problem and almost did the second phase. The third phase isn't really much of an issue, so if I had broken #2, I might have done it. I think I'll be able to pull it off before the holiday is over.

I used a bear, and yeah, I had significant buffs. Not the best stuff, but still some stuff. Sculpin food buff, armor and AP elixirs, some kibler bits for pet food. I popped drums of the wild, drums of kings also. I'm also in PvP gear, so my bear was uncrittable, and since I was using one Direbrew trinket for this, I had significant sta. All buffs said and done, bear was about 30k HP with 60% physical reduction from armor. I had also respec'd specifically into a pet solo build. Grabbed pet avoidance and mitigation talents, etc.

I think my mistake was dropping avoidance for the +pet damage talent for this fight. I started the second phase with terrible HP on my bear. I think it was because he was eating the whirlwind while we DPS'd the head. Mend didn't seem to be enough to keep him at full through it.

The biggest danger, and the real problem I hit, was lack of MP in the second phase. Having to viper up really hurt me since you have to burn through the second phase as quickly as possible to avoid conflagrate stacking up. BW will make both you and your pet immune to it, but it's only 10 seconds. Trinket will give you a second reprieve.

Just as a note, it's really doubtful your bear is going to get any tougher than mine, and even mine was gradually losing HP. I think mine was down to around 25% once I finished him up in the first phase. So if you don't start a phase with full HP on your pet, it's probably fail. That's why my bear went down on the second phase. He started it low.

On the other hand, if you have 2 piece T5 and decent gear, I think a BM hunter would solo this far more easily than any other spec, including protadins.

Comment by Albo125

Where do you find these sound files?

Comment by AMonkey

Next year Cataclysm will be out, won't they both be 85?

Comment by Euphemera

Does anyone know if you loose your daily summon if you happen to fail the encounter? Not that that would likely happen in a full group, but as a warlock I'd like to try soloing it, but not at the risk of loosing my summon for the day.

Edit: Also, and this question has probably been asked and answered somewhere, but any idea what the drop rate on the Reins is? I know it's quite rare, but on the order of 1 in 1000 rare (abandon hope all ye etc) or 1 in 100 rare (I've got a good chance of at least seeing it this year).

Comment by tregon75

Easily three-manned with decent gear. (Pre-raid, except the healer.) All double-summoned for 6 fights total. Took a bit longer, but meh.

Comment by tregon75

Yes, you lose your summon if you wipe.

Easily three-manned with decent gear. (Pre-raid, except the healer.) All double-summoned for 6 fights total. Took a bit longer, but meh.

Comment by Ralan

Very much soloable as Prot Paladin. 37k hp selfbuffed, never got below half health. Just back into a wall so pumpkins don't hit you from behind and you'll be fine. Just swapped between Seal of Light and Corruption when hp was at max. No bubbles, or LoH neccissary. Of coarse it's nice to say you can do it but if you want the loot, it's best to be in a group.

Comment by aliss

He can be summoned by minimum level 75.

Comment by Edymnion

I've fought him roughly 30 times now. More of those blasted rings than I can count dropped.

Seen the plate helm once, the squashling twice, and the pumpkin helm once. Have not seen the sword or the mount drop. Probably about a dozen brooms have dropped.

Oddly enough, the plate helm, the pumpkin helm, and one squashling were all in the same run.

Anyone know how long it will be before wowhead has collected enough data to put the early estimates up? Seems like they had Brewfest data up much faster than this...

Comment by neltharion1

Stand doesn't rhyme with End. 50 dkp minus.

Comment by ShankStar

No one has posted this yet, so I thought I would. For those of you who were wondering what the sound file for his emote is, it's:/script PlaySoundFile("Sounds\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Conflag_01.wav")

Conflag is short for Conflagoration, btw.

Comment by starscapes

I've heard you must now be 75 to actually summon him. I was able to summon on a 75, but not a 65, even though you can get the quest to kill him at 65. Has anyone checked to see if a 70 can summon? Or is 75 the lowest you can be?

Comment by Isilien

75 is the lowest. There is a post confirming this on the 2nd page.

Comment by FlingWrinkle

Is there a list of all these soundbites somewhere? Like for the rest of the bosses.

Comment by dDontMe

I had my own server once and i were called "World of The Headless Horse Man"

Comment by lycanther

I tried summoning at 70, and it didn't work (! was grayed out) so 65 is not the minimum. I suspect the minimum is 75, but that's just my speculation.

Comment by OleMarYUlberg

He is lvl 80, you have to be lvl 75 to summon him, he can be summond by the same person 2 times on the same day if you got the one time quest The Headless Horseman(Horde) and to kill him is like killing a boar. No worries if 2 of your party members are lvl 75 or you just can't find more then 3 people, probably doable with a simple tank and a healer, maby a druid or pala could even solo him.

Comment by morillus

Id definitely say it's soloable. I NEARLY managed it on my Blood/UD DK in PVP gears but died halfway during the last phase. Can't be assed going all the way to SM to try it again - Would be good if I could just port there. :( If I tried it a few more times I reckon I'd have it down-pat, but it's just not worth the effort.

Got a warlock and hunter (both in blues) along after the initial try and managed to do it w/ no external healing whatsoever.

Comment by Treston323

Anyone know the possible armor that looks close to the headless horseman's? Besides the helm of course.

Comment by QualityJeverage

Soloed it tonight on my Blood-spec DK in Uld/ToC tank gear. Very straightforward. Death strike or Rune tap when needed, save Army of the Dead for when he summons the pumpkin adds.

Comment by Ymiron

I love Hallow's End! The best days in the years!

For the Headless Horseman!

Comment by kek1234

I got it last year from Tricker Treating, But this year on my DK I can't seem to get I have been tricker treating 5 times a day lol I can't get I just found out you can get it from the HH

Comment by tmptfate

Yea, 2 posts above mine (roughly).

Comment by VikingIrishman

Can anybody tell me if the model of the armor he wears has an equipable in game equivalent?

Comment by Aping

can u be lvl 60 and still get the achievement?

Comment by FlingWrinkle

Well, I was kinda looking for a bigger list...like this one: wowwiki :)

Comment by GoonerW

Get the pre-quest by hanging out in Brill or Razor Hill. Every so often, the Headless Horseman's shade will swing through and set the buildings on fire. If everybody works together to put the fires out, the shade will come down to fight. Kill it, "talk" to his pumpkin head on the ground, and you'll get the quest to go kill the real Horseman in SM.

You don't need to wait for the HH to come and attempt to burn the village down. The quest can be picked up any time.

Comment by Meeran

He can be soloed by DK's aswellTried yesterday, and went very well.Took me about maybe... 7 mins or so. Tank DK with bloodspecc, had tanking gear on. Tier8 gear basiclly.Only critical phase was in p3 when he summons pumpkins.But if you're smarter than me you should use AotD there. I used it in the start, which wasnt the greatest move.

Also tried to solo as Demo warlock. But failed when the pumpkins came. Since they pwned my ass and I was low on HP.Going to try tomorrow and be a little more prepaired.

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Comment by HunterZurrvan

Just soloed on my 80 BE Prot Paladin. Geared in 2 pieces of T8.5 and 2 pieces of T9. Didn't even need to use Lay on Hands or either bubble.

Buffs i used were:Seal of Light, Judgement of Light, Righteous Fury, Greater Blessing of Sanctuary, Flask of Stoneblood, Divine Plea (w/ glyph to make it reduce damage), and Devotion Aura. Had to swap to Judgement of Mana, a few times but it's a pretty easy fight. Pumpkins where no problem, just used Consecration and Holy Wrath, to deal with them.

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I want to know what his armor is, because i have the horse, helm, and blade. I want to get the full knight outfit and run around Goldshire shouting out quotes, cuz i''m a human and i look like him :P

Comment by Ymiron

Nice video, but there was a time where you was close to Oom :) How ever im exciting with your hunter solo movie, also because im hunter... Nice job!

Comment by jacobwx

could anyone link the soundtracks where he says: the town still burns a cleansing fire! your time is short i'll soon retire! and The sky is dark the fire burns! you strive in vain as fate's wheel turn!

Comment by Wultarr

The Headless Horseman story (WoW version)

A band of hoodlums pillaged throughand stolen from my homeThose few possessions still remainedto claim them as their own

My jewels, armor and a swordthe grave now need repair.But adding pain to great insultThey took away my mare!

I loved that horse!I fed her grain, the best of Stratholme’s stash.She was my perfect getawayBut now all plans have crashed.

You’ve seen my frail soul repent?And yet my hand is strongI shall return, the terror’s reignDelaying not for long

On blackened steed I’ll scorch the skyAnd see my vengeance done!...as soon as baron I have slayed,to get another one...

(C) WultarrDrenden (US)

P.S. You will need some WoW lore knowledge to get the point about why we see headless horseman no more then once a year ;)P.P.S. Thank you, Isilien for your post (see first page), your poems are most delightful and gave me an idea for this reply.P.P.P.S Alas, it was not us :( This elusive mount is yet to be seen among HH loot.

P.P.P.P.S. Got it last year on my blood elf priest! :)

Comment by Cysa

so this past year me and some people managed to find a bunch of people to summon in and we managed to do 38 summons in one instance. The squashling did not drop at all, the helm and sword dropped once, but rings and brooms galore! In the three years I've done this event I've still yet to even see him drop the mount.

Comment by Nukillis

Few weeks late, but I thought I'd post it anyways.

About 3 days before Halloween, I was on my Tauren Warrior and got into a PUG that was looking for a tank. So, I got into the group, and we ran to the HH. We spawned him, watched the events, and pwned his... erm... imaginary face. Funnily enough, he drops both the Horrific Helm and the Baleful Blade. I roll need on both because, well, I'm a tank and I had been wanting both (and this was just amazing because both dropped) for a long time. I roll a 78 on the helm and a 92 on the blade (winning for the helm, someone else rolled 99 on the blade) and the PUG group kicks me and calls me a ninja (lolwut, idc). So I ask my guild if anyone wants to run for the HH with me. I get together a priest, a shaman, a rogue, and another warrior and we run. The reins drop. Meh, I pass (lol I know what you all are thinking, OMG WTF BBQ). So then I ask if I can get my BE Paladin who didn't do the quest yet. They say yes, and we run it again. I get the Baleful Blade. AGAIN. So I get my Undead Death Knight and the shaman gets his mage on. We run it four more times. Just signet rings. Makes me angry. So on the last day of Hallow's End, my guild is running the HH all day and I get in with my DK. So the Horrific Helm drops. AGAIN. And I roll a 63 on it. Some guy not in the guild rolled a 62. Lol I feel bad for posting this but hey, it was a cool thing to happen.

Comment by Keelerak

Can some one comfirm what is he wearing? I know the helm, mount and sword are drops from him. I´m curious about shoulders, chest, gloves, leggins, boots, cloak and maybe waist (but it doesnt dramatically change look, does it?)

Comment by themguyman

is it really surprising prot pallys can solo almost ne thing

Comment by themguyman

if you run out of time after his head flies off will it go back to 100% after you knock it off again or will it stay where you left it

Comment by Magnion

Anyone know if his loot table is going to be updated to current gear levels?

Comment by andrtan

Although originally summoned from a quest inside the graveyard of the scarlet monastery during hollows end, with the implemented changes in the "dungeon tool" we might find ourselves forced to use this que to start the event. Same as with lord Ahune the event will be able to complete as many times as the user wants with the exception of getting the best and most interesting loot only 1 time a day (see "Satchel of Chilled Goods"). This will cause modification in the loot table of the headless horseman to drop all of his "normal" drop when dies, while the special mount ("The Horseman's Reins") will be available only from the special bag we'll get once a day. Such changes will disallow people to farm the mount and drastically decrease the chances of one dropping :(

Comment by CmdrAdeon

It could go either way Ahune has ilvl232 items now but Coren Direbrew is still dropping ilvl200 Trinkets.

Comment by CmdrAdeon

Although when one does drop you don't have to roll against 4 other people for it so your overall chance of getting it on a per-summons basis should remain about the same assuming you previously did 5 summons a day.

Comment by Octavus

So if i want to summon him for first time i go to brill and take the quest does anyone know what quest i have to do ?

Comment by NephilimX

I'm going to go ahead and make an educated guess that it'll be the same loot. If you recall, Ahune wasn't updated to match the current gear levels per say, he just was still dropping level 70 items last year and needed level 80 gear, unlike Coren Direbrew and the Headless Horseman. Thus, like Coren Direbrew, I'd expect to see much of the same crap you got deluged with last year, but with added frost emblems and no "oh hay, sorry i just realized i used my summons earlier but thx 4 the group guise" mount ninja moments.

Comment by ImaDude

If you are level 75, can u still join in the fight?

I know you have to be 75 to summon him

Comment by Kanariya

Hopefully his health gets bumped up this year.

Comment by 4chan

This is my favorite seasonal boss. He has good taste in mounts, too. Not to mention that amazing cackle...

Comment by 4chan

Not this year. You probably have to be 78 to queue for him.

Comment by TylerGamer84

Players will probably receive a Pumpkin or Jack-o-Latern shaped Treasure bag for defeating him each day.

Comment by Shadowajohn

As of this post, the Headless Horseman seems to be bugged. Clicking on the pumpkin crashes the game.Edit: It seems to be somewhat fixed. Though I heard the problem was caused by DBM, so disabling that may help.

Comment by Omgomgesiuol

And before anyone asks, I can COMFIRM the mount drops from the bag.

OBVIOUSLY. Because even though it's been the case for every holiday since the LFG was introduced, people still ask.

Comment by ertdfg

I'm curious if the Helm and Squashling pet required for the Achiev are in the bag; or if you can run him (via Dungeon tool) to try to farm those?

That might make it tolerable to try for those rares (as I've seen posts elsewhere of people not getting those in any given year and missing out on the meta-achiev).

Coren's weapon and mount being in the bag make me think it might be bag only; but I'm not sure which way they went here.

Comment by Gweryan

Yep the mount is within the pumpkin you get for killing him, once a day, just like the keg from Brewfest. But also like Brewfest the mounts seems to drop even more. Had two people in the same group get one.

Comment by Gweryan

The pet (Sinister Squashling) is from the bag/pumpkin you get for killing him, I can confirm this. Source is myself, I got the pet on my second go on him, even though I have already learnt the pet before.

Comment by Eluzai

Done it today, and the bag I recieved was empty. "There is no loot" it said

Moreover when I entered the istance the other 4 members of the group crashed all together. Something doesn't seem right

And yes, the mount, pet and helm will drop from the bag, one in my party was lucky enough to get the broom, while the boss only dropped one ring and some jack-o-lantern

Comment by Shockhazard

Since you do this boss in the same manner as brewfest boss, it looks like only rings can be farmed over and over again, while rest of the drops comes from "daily q" casket/hallow head bag. ( Did it once 1 am and 9.30 am, so its more then once a day.)

As for loot I have gotten sword and quite often the pet from the daily bag. Pretty sure blizz buffed the dropchance.

Comment by branio

Though it seems the bag is empty (happened to me too), it contains the Justice points, which is a replace for Emblems of frost that dropped from Direbrew kegs. If we look at it with this view, the bag is not empty, but we just don't see the points "dropped", but added to the JP currency (if our chars aren't capped - having 4000+ JPs).

Comment by WelfareEpix

Horseman's Guide 2010:

ALL of the ilvl 200 rings are back and drop from him personally, not the pumpkin bag.

Comment by Eluzai

just hoped blizzard would remove the meta achievement of the pet and helm, the halloweed is the only title I need to get the violet proto drake, but I'm unlucky with bags :(

Comment by LadyEnfinity

Players are now able to queue for this boss via the Random Dungeon Finder.Loot for the boss seems to have changed as well.The mount will now drop from the Loot-Filled Pumpkin, which is attainable once per day.

More information regarding the loot can be found here, by other posters.

Comment by battierpeeler

not bugged for everyone. it's a known bug but not a known cause. it has to do with anything that uses the cog or gear icon. mage table, healthstone, bg flags, and this summon

Comment by Delaine1987

Legitimate question: What level do you need to be in order to queue for this instance. I haven't seen anything on it, so if someone could point out my ignorance, it would be appreciated.

Thanks

Comment by Kanegasi

Just like every seasonal event with a boss, level 78 is required to use the Dungeon Finder for the boss of that event.

Comment by Lainea

Headless horseman is causing severe DC'ing! First battle, tank dc'd and my poor little mage managed to kill the bugger with the great help of a healer (who knows what the other dps were doing, eating candy maybe). 2nd and 3rd battles, it's been me that's dc'd grrrr

Comment by Beekeeper

Hey, I did that too. I killed him with my mage, and the help of a druid healer. Tank dc'ed first, and then a moonkin and a rogue just stood there. It was kinda weird.

Comment by Rach3l

(Posting as a reply to the first comment to increase visibility for patch 4.0/2010 version)

Just like the change to ahune and other holiday events, you can loot one bag from the horseman per day. Subsequent runs in the same day are pointless to obtain either the helm, the mount, or the pet. But they are good if you want the epic rings, pumpkins to put on the heads of other races (for Check Your Head), or more tricky treats (for Out With It).

Comment by panzuriel

I ran this three times this morning. I crashed several times. It happened whenever I moused over the pumpkin to summon him. It happened when I tried to tank it on separate runs for my pally and DK. also the shammy heals and mage crashed as well. Oddly enough we were able to complete when one of the DPS could mouse over the pumpkin without crashing and start the event.

No clue on why some can start the event and why others crash. Hopefully more info to follow.

Update: Apparently this is the "cogwheel of death" bug issue that has been affecting anything that you need the golden cogwheel icon to interact with. Sadly I hadn't seen it yet. Apparently Blizz is aware, yet there is no timeline on a fix.

Comment by Nhig

Today, I actually received two pumpkins, on my first, and on my third run. Got nothing from both of them.

Comment by anathor

The behavior in patch 4.0.1 is basically the same as the Brewfest boss.

Only one drop per day for the rare items (helm, mount, pet) as well as justice points (24 per kill), through a drop called "Loot-filled Pumpkin" (not yet in wowhead database). But you can kill him as many times per day as you want for the rings, weapon and so on.

Comment by Mairin

The Hallowed Helm is from the bags also.

Comment by runtodarkness

My WoW crashes every time I start him... Thus I've done the fight about 6 times now and never gotten a pumpkin. Fun!

Thanks Blizz..

Comment by monkeyhouse

crashed for me too. but it appears to happen in the first RD of the day...same as for others. there is a support thread (might get a response..)

Comment by aitb3000

I dont know why i cant see the pumpkin in the Scarlet Monastery , some one can help me?

Comment by RazorRowe

this year (2010) You do the Dungeon Finder to kill the headless horseman....so what is the lowest level requirement now? Last year it was 75, i got my paladin to 75 and i cant queue for it this year. So obviously the minimum level has gone up. A level 79 told me that when he queued for a random he got the headless horseman and the mount dropped from a bag thing. So is the minimum level 79? 80? 78? If i don't get a reply before i level up a lot to 80 i will come back on here and tell you all... Please reply ;)

Comment by msbrun02

As of 2010, patch 4.0.1, the Magic Broom drops from the pumpkin you receive from killing the Headless Horseman for the first time that day.

Comment by msbrun02

The Squashling drops from the bag... The Headless Horseman only drops a ring, helm, OR 1h sword. You only get one bag per day.

Comment by Emmeris

the magic broom drops from the pumpkin, got it last night - it lasts for 14 days...and to pple who are whining about not getting anything from the pumpkin, it's because you get justice points instead of the loot-they are invisible but still there :P

Comment by steffie999

Well, let's be honest now.Why are we paying so much attention to this guy... because he randomly kills people.On second thought... is he the first one to do this? is he really that original?HELL NO, F*** the headless horseman, focus on deathwing!

Comment by T3hHappyEmo

Don't try to grind justice points from him, you only get them from the first kill

Comment by Jesterzzn

There is a sticky post in the WoW Bug forums that provides a nice macro to disable tool tips. It is reported, and I can confirm, that this macro will prevent the freezing. Note that this works in all instances, not just for the Headless Horseman. So if you have been having trouble in battlegrounds and such, this macro will keep you from freezing until the issue is resolved.

Comment by Mimoo

Apparently there is a small bug right now where if your "Cog-wheel" shows up when you hover over the pumpkin, you DC.It'll probably be fixed in a hotfix. (I hope)Figured I'd let some people know for now.

Comment by Schmoofadoop

They drop this ridiculously huge patch on us and couldn't take a few minutes to buff up this fight? What a great way that would have been to kick off Hallow's End...

Instead we get a 60 second fight that ends with crappy items and a 0.3% chance at a mount.

I enjoy these holiday encounters, but they are just a joke at this point!

Comment by Megadon

Does it reset like heroics? I.e. if I do it just after midnight will it count for the next day?

Comment by Mandalaia

I just tried this and it still made the game freeze... I sure hope they fix this soon.

Comment by caedecian

There is a bug in this year's fight. If you leave your mouse over the pumpkin for more than a few seconds it will d/c you.

Comment by caedecian

There is a bug in this year's fight. If you leave your mouse over the pumpkin for more than a few seconds it will d/c you.

This should get you through until the official fix comes down from Blizzard. Happy hunting!

Comment by Luminatti

2010 Headless Horseman Overview (Patch 4.0.1)The NPC available 10/18/10 to 10/31/10 as part of the Hallow's End Seasonal Event

Access the boss fight via dungeon finder tool. No longer any reagant reaquired for summoning the HH or gathering a party for what was commonly called a full summon group for 5 opportunities for the special loot. Players 78 and above can que for the fight. Each day's first kill will yield an individual "Loot-Filled Pumpkin", which may or may not contain any special items. It will always yield Justice Points.

The pet and cloth helm are part of the Sinister Calling Achievement (Sinister Calling)

The HH himself will drop epic quality (ilvl200) rings. These (and the common items below) are the ONLY items you can farm, reque as many times daily as needed to get the one desired. The rings are as follows;Ring of Ghoulish Glee (Physical DPS) (Ring of Ghoulish Glee)The Horseman's Seal (Caster DPS) (The Horseman's Seal)Wicked Witch's Band (Healer) (Wicked Witch's Band)

Comment by ecodex

#showtooltip/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Special_01.wav")/cast Army of the Dead

and i wanted to know how did u make it did u get the soundtrack from a website?If so what website

Comment by willdawg01

I had a lot of fun force quitting WoW and logging back on 8 times before everything worked fine for me and I ended up soloing him as a Prot Pally. Did a second run with a guildie and got frozen again. By the time I got back on my guildie and a dwarf rogue were the only ones battling him I run in pull all aggro and the dwarf wants to talk crap "If you didn't want to tank you shouldn't have qued as one" apparently he didn't notice the red lightning bolt or the fact that the other dps weren't doing anything either.

Here's my question: Has there ever been a Hallow's End where something wasn't broken? I don't remember last year very well, but the year before I recall multiple server crashes. Please Blizzard release expansion packs in July/August to avoid holiday events. I know you want to hit the Christmas buying season, but A) December 7 already misses the biggest shopping day of the year and B) we're all addicted to your game already we will buy it whenever it comes out.

Comment by Bandom

well, since the summoning requires u to do a daily quest i guess it works like a daily quest? i think thats kinda obvious

Comment by Anukan

They didn't do anything new for Brewfest this year either (not even changed the Feat of Strength to say "2010"), so this was kind of expected... Will have to see if they do something for Winter's veil, being so close after Cata's release.

Comment by Crumpy

It seemed to disconnect for me when either hovering over and/or clicking the pumpkin which summons him... though I'm not entirely sure. Though, having read above, it appears others are getting the same problem.

Comment by ecodex

Comment by Smauller

So people under level 75 can no longer be carried through to get the achievement?

Comment by Alexj

so funny thing this seasonal...past few days I've had the "cogwheel of death" thingy like most people here yet somehow I've managed to get the daily done on both my characters (forced game-quits, endless relogging and a few re-queueing). So today I went in and saw they'd had an extended weekly maintenance and figured "hey perhaps they fixed the problem" but instead I end up getting DCed right off the loadscreen so now I can't even log onto my main without getting a DC...GG blizz *sigh*

Comment by Egel

Easy to solo as demo lock now in 4.0.1

Comment by jw150

Just had a freak run with a bunch of guildies in which EACH one of us recieved a Sinister Squashling, Horseman's Helm AND His reighns. We're not sure wheter or not this was some glitch on the servers or we just got incredily lucky :D either way we're all happy

Comment by Shadowajohn

I can confirm you can get MULTIPLE items from the bag, somehow managed to get the mount, helm, pet & human female mask from a bag earlier. Not sure if this was a bug, or if it was just me being extremely lucky >.<

Comment by Jenessen

After patch 4.0.1 the game crashes when you try to start the event.

Comment by jcoll71

i found and downloded an addon from curse today called cogfix that is aimed at fixing the new dc problem until bliz fixs it themselves i hope this helps i haven't been dc'ed from horseman at all today

Comment by barunedpat

The bag have a high dropchance of masks now, instead of getting the message: there is no loot.

Comment by Luminatti

Nope. You must be 78 to gain access to this fight using the dungeon finder. If you travel to the SM Graveyard instance and access it the traditional way, the HH will not be present.

Corrected my error.

Comment by Belania

The level requirement for this is not 75. It is 78.

I've spent the last two days leveling one of my toons from 76 up to 78. When I hit 78, I could finally access the fight through the dungeon finder.

Comment by Iphimedia

I looked around a bit and was able to gather this information from the WoW forums. Mousing over anything that has what is called a "cog wheel" tooltip can currently crash your game. There is a workaround in place right now, which involves using the following macros.

Players have also reported not having this issue when they use the TipTac addon.

EDIT: Ok, so no matter how you type in Setscript, it insists on making the second 's' lowercase. Probably some sort of scripted prevention for people who like to post in all caps. Awesome. So, for anyone reading this in the future who for some reasons needs this macro, just make the second 's' in Setscript uppercase as well. Cheers.

Comment by Norolas

The Headless Horseman; best boss in the game, you fight him a lot and the loot is the same.Regardless of items that might drop in the pile, he fights with a rhyme and has unmatchable style.There aren't many around that fight on a horse, well there's four in Naxxramas and Attumen of course.But our friend with no head offers something more fun, pumpkins and fire and the occasional pun.I could wax lyrical about him all day, but I have bills due and this doesn't pay.

Comment by Cryonicblue

I have done this ALOT now (have 21 chars that I do it every day on) And I have not seen the helm drop for me or anyone (that opened bag before leaving ofc) So I'm wondering if he still drops helm

Comment by jedihorn019

Hey I updated my video drivers from nvidia and I am not DC from mousing over the pumpkin

Comment by Mirracle

he does :) got it the other day.

Comment by Crewe

*edit*Now I see whats going on here... It looks like the wowhead comments have some strange sanitizing feature when posting text. Sometimes you can't post camel-case typed words. OoHm, okay wowhead, for all your greatness and nice features, this is complete bullsh*t. Why do you have a code box BB-code at first place?How can we post pre-formatted stuff without wowhead destroying it?

Anyway... what Iphimedia has posted works absolutely fine. All you have to do is to modify the second "s" on the method "SetScript" to be an uppercase "S".

Comment by hogue

Doing it several days on my pala. So far sta+int and sta+agi rings dropped (trying to get sword and plate helm, several runs per day). Today is the great day, ring sta+int+spirit appears in loot.

Comment by tinkwrecks

Has anyone else received nothing but masks from this guy? I've done it everyday for 10 days and I either get a repeat mask or even nothing at all. And every time, each of my group members get something fun. Just not me. I feel like I'm the only one being totally rejected by the horseman. :(

Comment by kabookiejoe

yes he does

Comment by Biggus1

If you summon him right before the end of the holiday, does he despawn while you are fighting him? I didn't get to test this because the end time was wrong on my in-game calendar.

Comment by Moregoff

More terrifing than the Horseless Headless Horsemen

Comment by SBNBH

So... In their misguided attempts to force people to use their dungeon finder function Blizz has sucked the fun out of another holiday boss? So rather than go to SM with a group of people you want or like to group with or by yourself, you're forced into a group of people who'll likely whinge, moan and curse about the tank sucking, or the healers sucking or the DPS sucking or that they didn't get what they needed or that everyone but themselves suck because not -everyone- likes to PvP, Raid or PUG. Turning Holiday enjoyment into a mindless daily loot grind one boss at a time. GG Blizz, glad I came back for Cata to find that the holiday fun had become the sole property of lvl 85 epic raid geared toons capable of downing elite dungeon bosses instead of everyone who plays regardless of gear or lvl.

Comment by tuugii

where to find the the horseman?

Comment by lunayah

One time something very odd happened to me when I was playing as my tauren shaman, I ran into the Horseman and tried to kill him. However, I was like level 23 and died in one hit. Wanna know what was so odd about my encounter? I was in !

Comment by Agalloch

Comment by shzpimp

Same over all for 4.2 but 84-85 can que for the daily. Also the masks can be put on without taking off your helm. (not sure if that is new)

Comment by wheels010

ive only seen caster rings drop! where's the melee?

Comment by Kate452

And Tricky Treats and one of the many masks available, but I was just mentioning the exclusive items that you cannot buy at the vendors. =D

Comment by Viserate

Just as a reminder, this year he also drops 25 Justice Points. NIce fight.And one more thing, the HH has about 940k health and the fight has 3 phases. Pretty much a tank and spank process.

Good luck

Comment by Malaizel

There's a cloth helm?

Comment by bunnietenou

Yeah its a Level 1 Cloth helm called The Hallowed Helm. You can get it in handful of treats as well. Its just an easir way to get Sinister Calling. >.> im having no luck on the plate helm for my warrior lol

Comment by Aisenfaire

Comment by MiltiadesBooga

You streak 'cross the skyWith your stallion alightYou set me on fireAnd then laugh at my plightYou've toasted my homiesWith squash conflagrationWhat's a poet to doAmidst this devastation?

Well, you think you're the bardYea, a bard most sublime!You think you're the bossSpeaking only in rhymeYou think you're the masterYou think you're the manBut I laugh at your efforts--YOUR RHYMES DON'T QUITE SCAN! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Comment by vlaka

anyone know what pieces of armour he's wearing?

Comment by ElementGamer

one question, if i am wearing a rep tabard, something like the guardians of hyjal tabard, will i gain rep, and if i will how much?

Comment by InsanitySprE

I'm missing a few audio macros.

I need:

The sky is dark, the fire burns. You strive in vain as fate's wheel turns.

The town still burns a cleansing fire. Time is short, I'll soon retire.

Here's my body, fit and pure. Now your blackened souls I'll cure.

and

I am over here, you fool of a body.

Comment by Shenk

Sir Thomas Thomson aka Sir Thomas <Son of Thomas> (better known as the Headless Horseman), was once a Knight of the Silver Hand and hero among his fellow paladins. But he became cursed, driven insane within the Scarlet Monastery, he believed that he was alive and that everyone alive was dead. His fervor no longer served the Light. With the coming of Hallow's End, he spreads gloom and fire across the villages of Azeroth.

He appears in his true but ghostly form after his headless form is defeated. He then asks for forgiveness, and that his holy tome, the Tome of Thomas Thomson be brought back to a Costumed Orphan Matron.

... maybe he is vendor that sells the Riding Crop pattern in CoT: Old Hillsbrad Foothills

Comment by elionor

3 years of killing this ass and nothing

Comment by Soldierhobby

this guy is annoying to kill

Comment by Soldierhobby

he has like 3 phases bfore hes dead

Comment by skullripper

i like to use two of this guys quotes for some DK move macrosone is"Soldiers arise! Stand and fight! Bring victory at last to this fallen knight!"witch is what i use for Army of the Dead, the whole speach lasts almost the whole cast of Army so that makes it a bit more epic /script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Special_01.wav") /cast Army of the Dead

and the other is"Get over here you idiot!" witch i use for the spell Death Grip/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav&qu ot;) /cast Death Grip

Comment by Jumpingkill

if hes headless why does he have a helmet

Comment by Blittzer

At level 89 you can do the instance The Headless Horseman as often as you like for many chances at rings, but can only get Loot-Filled Pumpkin on your first kill per day.

Comment by brynjolf

Currently on European servers he seems bugged. Make sure you open the bag BEFORE you leave the instance or it will disappear, it happened to me and you will regret not opening it for sure!

Comment by Ruunica

Its worth noting that, once again, tanks can't get any gear from this encounter, either from the drop or the Loot Filled Pumpkin. That being said, if you already have the mount and you aren't going for any OS gear, you won't be farming this much as a tank. Not really sure why Bliz wouldn't put something for tanks to go for and keep queueing, but meh.

Comment by Pops715

Seems like I always get burned on the dungeons. Just did the Headless Horseman and hit "Greed" for Band of the Petrified Pumpkin, which my Death Knight could have used. But another person in the group hit "Need" and got it. Last time I was in a dungeon group, I was the one who hit "Need" for an item I truly needed, but got !@#$%ed at for doing it. The rules are never the same......(sigh)

Comment by Dragonthingy

This will probably get downrated, but i'm just gonna say it anyway.

On a fateful Sunday morning on October 21st, I was happily chatting to my friend who's WoW dream was to finally get her mitts on The Horseman's Reins but was always seeming to get the helm, which was the only thing I was really after. (and mostly because i already have the mount.) When I recieved my daily reward I held my breath and with fingers crossed, opened the Loot-Filled Pumpkin to find........................The mount.

When I told my friend about this she told me she got the helm out of her pumpkin, and from this day on whenever I fight the Headless Horseman This Song always pops into my head.

P.S. Sorry for my terrible grammar, I suck at this kind of stuff. :(

Comment by TheLittleMike

So for the clueless like myself, can you fight him before level 89 or is that just to use the Random Dungeon Finder? I just dinged 85 and was looking to fight him but didn't see it in the RDF screen and was wondering if I'm too low.

Comment by nick17gar

Dying to see a tank ring added into the loot tables!

Comment by Neutralis

It sucks WOW used the old SM for the Headless Horseman. I would've liked it if they used the new SM for him. It would've looked alot better with the fire and all.

Comment by Josewashere

The Headless Horseman is a wicked man,who flies his steed burning down the land.I've always wanted to ride his ghostly mount,although he continues to laugh about.Looting the pumpkin doesn't drop the rare helm or sword,doing several of his runs just continues to make me bored.Doing his those runs once a day,made me felt that he should pay.I enjoy Halloween bringing on the spirit of course,but a nice man would just give up a damn horse.

Comment by Neutralis

No mount again for me this year. This is 6 years in a row now. Come on Blizz!

Comment by Rallelol

You must defeat head in 5 second (first attemp to defeat head). Many player defeated his head in third attemp, every attemp is longer and longer.

Comment by Wendi2

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Comment by RaiGuthix

Hey, I'm trying to use his sound file "Harken, cur! Tis you I spurn! Now feel... the burn!" when my warlock casts immolation but it doesn't seem to play. Is this script(below) the correct one or is there an error in it? /script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Conflag_01.wav&q uot;)

EDIT: Also, am I the only one who hears it or can other players hear too?

EDIT2: This is the correct format for it. /script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Conflag_01.wav")

Comment by Agoonga

Shelter your weak, your young and your old cause they beheadin' everybody out here.

Comment by NaughtyPuppy

For 2013, he drops primarily 470 rings. You still get a bag for the first completion of each day that has a chance of containing vanity items.

Comment by elionor

so in the time i have been trying for this mount i have completed high school and 1 year of college this is sad on so many levels

Comment by VolksDK

"Get over here you idiot!" is perfect for a death knight's Death GripHere's a macro:/cast death grip/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav")

Comment by Mellro

There is actually quite a tragic story behind this holiday boss in the lore, however it's alot for me to type here on Wowhead. So here's a nice video about him by lore channel Nobbel87 you're free to check out:

Comment by ivanmex

There either is some bug,or i've missed something,because i did it just now on 2 of my characters,and it said i recieved loot ,but neither of my characters had it in their bags.

Edit:It seems the problem is when changing zones via the loading screen.Edit 2:This applies to every Hallow's End item associated with Tricky Treats,including them.

Comment by ImOssir

Currently (2014) he drops 540 ilvl. For me it was Wicked Witch's Signet but 540 ilvl with 40 int, 61 stamina, 27 crit and 27 spirit.

P.S. If you open this item for live version of wow it shows 540 ilvl, but tooltip still have link with WoD version of item

Comment by elionor

so something very interesting happened when i tried to this guy today something ive never seen in all the years ive been farming this mount when we got in the instance the usual pumpkin used to summon was no where to be found instead the entire group almost rushed through the instance to the last boss and once he was dead we received the reward loot filled pumpkin and gold has anyone else had a similair experince

Comment by Eido

The 2014 dungeon event, loot table consists of four ilvl 540 rings, as well as the chance of looting an ilvl 540 helm or sword within the daily dungeon bonus item Loot-Filled Pumpkin (once per character per day).

Must be at least level 89 to queue for the Dungeon Event.These items (except for the Helm and Sword) CANNOT be disenchanted.BOSS LOOT